18 responses to “We love you Stalin, we do, we love you Stalin, we do, we love you Stalin……”

I’d forgotten it was St Patrick’s Day, to tell you the truth, even though I do have Irish blood in me somewhere. I think virtually everybody in England does. In my case, it was my maternal grandmother whose maiden name was O’Neill. That is enough for me to qualify to play soccer for Ireland, once I’ve lost 50 or 60 lbs.

It certainly is. It just shows how dreadful the situation can become when the leader of a country can organise it so that the people worship him as a god on earth. It happened with Hitler, it happened with Mao and it seems to be happening in North Korea. There must always be the opportunity for people to dissent. otherwise democracy will just wither and die….which seems to be happening over here, where some members of parliament represent 100,000 people and others represent only 50,000. And of course, nobody will vote for reform because they might be voting for their own demise.

Yes, but he had a very warm heart! It surprises me that Russians nowadays look upon him as a wonderful man who won the Second World War. If Stalin hadn’t carried out all those purges in the late 1930s, the Germans might have been defeated even quicker! It was the Russian people themselves who were the heroes, refusing to submit and eventually killing almost 70% of the German casualties.

Don’t they just. I went to what was then the Soviet Union in 1969 on a school trip and posters were dirt cheap. I bought loads at 5p each, How I wish I still had them, including a six feet wide laminated map of the country and a Lenin that measured well over eight feet high…bigger than Bigfoot. I hadn’t thought it through, because the Lenin poster was too big for indoors and my Dad wouldn’t let me put it on the wall of our house in case the neighbours didn’t like it.

It’s a very strange pose, which does have a history apparently. The Romans used it in the Senate, I believe, and then Napoleon took it up. Hitler ignored it although he adapted the Roman greeting into the “Hitlergruß” or ‘Hitler Greeting’. Then Stalin must have thought that hand in coat was a good idea and duly used it, if sparingly. I’m glad to see that you think that Stalin was a Fascist just like Hitler, Mussolini and the long neglected Franco who killed tens of thousands in his own concentration camps such as at Alicante. You can add Mao to the list and I have a strong suspicion that one day, it will be recognised that China in 2017 was pretty much the same. A slave society with no free speech and a total fear of dissent.

Absolutely. The similarities between Stalin and Hitler when they were with little children are quite startling. I wonder if that very strange young man in North Korea is the same? I wouldn’t be surprised.